@cachdavid - You are telling my story! Thank you for sharing and I look forward to the responses. Jennifer certainly has great advice. The Mayo message boards are full of shared experiences that have really answered a lot of my questions. I just found my surgery list, it's unreal.
2015: Left anterior foraminectomy C6-7.
2016: Lumbar Stenosis with neurogenic claudication 2017, XLIF with lateral plate to RIGHT laminectomy L3-
L4, L4-L5 Lumbar Stenosis , fusion 4-5, posterior decompression Lumbar 3-4 , Left to right. Translateral
interbodies .
2017: Fusion 4-5 Repair broken pedicle screw sitting on nerve and Lumbar 3-5 Lamenectomy.
2018: Went the the ER with acute bilateral low back pain with sciatica laterally unspecified MRI Lumbar
degerative disc disease. Spine surger for placement of Rods and pedicle screws.

2024: Multilevel Lumbar spondylosis L2-3 3-4 4-5 spinal canal decompression bilateral. Severe left sided neural foraminal narrowing of L5-S1. C2-3 to C7-T1 facet artriopathy and uncovertebral osteophytes with severe bilateral neural foramina stenosis. I can hardly keep up with all of the work that I've had. Fusion surgery coming up in June.